Will the Guardian report rockets fired by Gaza terrorists which destroyed a house in Israel?

The life of Pini Azoulay, of the southern Israeli town of Netivot, 14 km from the Gaza border, was saved when, having awoken (at around 2AM this morning) to the sound of the air raid siren, he ran towards the bathroom which was protected by a concrete ceiling.

The explosion caused by thegrad rocket caused severe damage to the house.

Home in Netivot destroyed, this morning, by Palestinian rocket fire

A second rocket landed in an open area in Beersheba, prompting the city’s mayor, Mayor Ruvik Danilovich, to cancel school for more than 40,000 children.

The rocket attacks on Israel today by Palestinians in Gaza resulted in seven injuries; three were hurt while running to bomb shelters after hearing the sirens, while another four suffered shock.

No terror group claimed responsibility for the attack, but reports suggest that terrorists associated with the Global Jihad network were to blame.

This constant barrage of Palestinian terror attacks (by Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Popular Resistance Committees, Global Jihadists, and others) has been characterized – when reported at all – by the Guardian’s Jerusalem correspondent, Harriet Sherwood, as “sporadic“.

The blog ‘This Ongoing War‘ does a stellar job reporting the details of this grossly under-reported campaign of terror against Israeli civilians.

Nat – you (again) deliberately distort others’ posts to make a spurious accusation. I don’t see any joy over the death of innocents in Daniel’s post. He is merely expressing a view (with which you are free to disagree and which, by the way, I don’t support) that military action against Gaza is the best way to counteract the constant rocket attacks on Israel’s southern communities.

Sadly, it is inevitable that in war, innocents (including children)will die, which is horrible. That does not necessarily make all military action an evil thing, though, nor those that propose it evil people.

No, pretz, I didn’t see that. Just the post saying that, after 8,000 rockets, there should be “no more Mr Nice Guy”.

I think I have been pretty consistent on here in that I will vehemently disagree with racist comments, but also with those who exaggerate/twist others’ words (whether I agree with them or not). That is all I have done here.

I am, hoever, not afraid to acknowledge when someone makes a good point (or a valid argument) even though I may disagree with them fundamentally on other issues. I have even agreed (on occasion) with Nat, Avram etc, so I can certainly agree with Daniel when he makes a reasonable point.

As I say, I have never condoned racist comments, whether they are by Daniel or anyone else, but I don’t subscribe to the opinion that someone must be either a) an abomination whose every word must be wrong or b) a hero whose every post should be recommended to the hilt.

I will NOT apologise for retaining an open mind and considering a person’s opinions on the basis of those opinions, and not on the basis of whether they are considered to be a “good guy” or a “bad guy”.

Having said that, context does of course count. As I have posted before, “All Jews should leave Germany and go and live in Israel” sounds very different if said by a German neo-nazi than if said by an Israeli minister.

@ Daniel, please be moderate.
Pretzel can be annoying but this is no excuse to depict him as “Blockwart”. Write “idiot” or something else, pretzel is really anything but a Nazi.
Concerning Avram, Nat and so on, I`m not so confident.

Nat,
It is obvious for the majority of people. But let me spell it out for you.
After 15554 unguided missiles which make life hell for hundreds of thousands of people I welcome any IDF action in Aza. That 300 kids died during Cast Lead is terrible, but the people gave the Islamofacists and absolute majority and so they sanctioned a course of war with Israel ( war clearly being spelled out in the Hamas charta ). As any rational person on the planet knows , when you pick a fight with Israel you have a very high chance of being beaten on the battle field. When the Palestian electorate love life more than death we will come to an understanding. Until then I will delight in the superiority of the IDF and it’s world class arsenal and the men and women who make this arsenal work. As a side note, you should be happy the Palestians are not fighting the USA. The USA does not go into battle with kit gloves ( see Faludja ). The IDF’s kill ratio of one terrorist for every civilian is unprecedented in the history of urban combat. Any other army would simply flatten Aza. So count your blessings. For alternatives in urban combat I would encourage research on Grozny, Aleppo and Syria in general and of course Lebanon as a whole.

You don’t believe in the “8000 missiles?” Since you put quotes around them and all, I’m sure that was meant to be a facetious acceptance of the fact that, on average, more than 3 projectiles a day have been shot into Israel.

I guess it’s only a missile if someone dies? How is illegally shooting projectiles into Israeli territory an action of peace? Finally, could you post your address so I can show up at your home with my egg launcher?

I look forward to the day when the Groan’s hack in Israel has a really close call with a missile from Aza. Hopefully a good photograph will be taken of the horror in that persons face as the shrapnel misses them by inches. Could be a game changer.

Only a massive attack resulting in numerous deaths would be reported by the Guardian, and then only because major news organizations elsewhere would have reported it, so they would do it to “go along.”

If a Palestinian trips over a flagstone on the Tel Aviv sea front, Harriet will be racing to the scene from the comforts of her air-conditioned bubble in Jerusalem to inform the world that the flagstones on Tel Aviv pavements are actually Jewish religious settlers from the West Bank who were waiting to ambush a Palestinian.